I’m currently in the midst of reading Allan Stratton’s coming of age novel aptly titled Borderline‚ about a Muslim American boy who wants nothing more than to be accepted in his white suburban community. Out of the blue‚ the FBI suddenly accuses Sami’s dad of being part of an international terrorist plot and things suddenly go from bad to worse when Sami’s dad is thrown into jail‚ and his bullies go from calling him a ’sand monkey’ to dumping his head in the toilet. When Sami realizes he has nowhere
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presidency. After all this failure we see at 1:11:22 where Kane is speaking to his closest friend Bernstein‚ of where the shot is done in a low camera angle‚ giving an interesting viewpoint. This viewpoint has particular effect to it‚ as a figure closer becomes an unrealistic large‚ where ones farther away become unrealistically small. In this scene we see Kane as a very large figure and in contrast Mr. Bernstein much smaller‚ mimicking Kanes hunger to be ‘bigger’ and more ‘powerful’ to
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Assess the reason for the 1905 revolution in Russia. The turn of the 19th century brought together a series of events‚ discontent and public tension together to form the 1905 revolution‚ which eventually brought an established autocratic Tsarist regime to an end. But previously‚ Russia was in turmoil. With a land mass of over 8 million square miles entailing over 100 ethnic races; limited communication organization and transport which was often impassable leaving sections of Russia detached from
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Assess the view that working-class children under-achieve because they are culturally deprived. (20 marks) The idea that working-class children will most likely under-achieve due to a lack of culture‚ also known as cultural deprivation‚ refers to children lacking the norms‚ values‚ beliefs‚ skills and knowledge that a society would regard as important and necessary. The attributes that these children should know and learn are‚ in most cases‚ taught by their parents and are passed to the next generation
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Contemporary views are that class is still the most significant social factor for accounting for differences in educational achievement. It seems that middle class children tend to do better than working class children. Most sociologists believe that in every social class there is the same range of ability‚ this means that class differences in educational attainment are not due to class differences in intelligence‚ but due to other circumstances such as the home and socialization. However some sociologists
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Twins are important for studies of nature vs. nurture theories in psychology because they are one of the few ways to study and see results due to their shared genetics. There are studies that have been done on this topic‚ however not that many since it is a long term experiment and in some cases it was done without even the twins or their parents and families knowing about it happening. There are multiple existing coincidental examples and planned studies that were done in which it is shown that
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To what extent did industrial development under Witte make Russia a more stable and prosperous country? Even thought there were problems with Witte’s approach to development is not to deny that Russia needed major reform. Its defeat by Western powers in the Crimean War (1853-1856)‚ lack of industrial development‚ poor infrastructure‚ left it much weaker than its competitors in Europe. As finance minister‚ Witte pushed for greater exports‚ ambitious industrialisation and to get large foreign loans
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of exam results being distorted‚” says Oxana Reshetnikova‚ director of the Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements‚ developers of the unified test. Literature teacher and member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Education and Science Sergei Volkov‚ cited by online news edition Gazeta.ru‚ called the future abolition of tests “a bolt from the blue”
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any threat to his power and to blame his failures on people who weren’t responsible for them. Stalin used the purges as a way of removing any threat to his power and to enforce total control. The event that triggered the Purges was the murder of Sergei Kirov in 1934‚ he was the popular Leningrad party leader and also a close ally of Stalin. He was too popular for Stalin’s liking and was almost certainly assasinated on Stalin’s orders. Stalin used this event as evidence of a plot against his rule
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